Casa de José de Alencar, Historic site and museum in Messejana, Fortaleza, Brazil.

Casa de José de Alencar is a nine-hectare cultural site in the José de Alencar neighbourhood of Fortaleza, Ceará, maintained by the Federal University of Ceará. Its surviving original building is the Casinha, a single-storey house built in 1826 with brick-and-lime walls, brick-tile flooring, a four-slope roof and carnaúba-wood rafters. The site also holds the ruins of Ceará's first steam sugar mill and a two-storey building from 1970 housing the museum, the Floriano Teixeira picture gallery and the Braga Montenegro library.

The property was acquired in 1826 by José Martiniano de Alencar and initially served as the residence of a larger estate that included a sugar mill. It gained national importance when his son José de Alencar was born there in 1829 and went on to become Brazil's most influential writer.

The site takes its name from José de Alencar, born here in 1829, whose novels are shown in the museum through excerpts and a chronology of his literary output. The Pinacoteca Floriano Teixeira holds 32 paintings based on his works, and the Salão Iracema recalls his novel Iracema.

The site lies in the José de Alencar neighbourhood of Fortaleza, in the area that was once the Sítio Alagadiço Novo and is now part of the city. The nine-hectare grounds hold the 1826 casinha, the ruins of Ceará's first steam sugar mill, the Arthur Ramos Museum, the Floriano Teixeira Pinacoteca, the Braga Montenegro Library and the Iracema Room. The on-site restaurant is temporarily closed, and the grounds also have living quarters for researchers carrying out projects there.

Archaeologists from the Federal University of Pernambuco surveyed the grounds in 2000, excavating the ruins of the manor house and the remains of Ceará's first steam-powered sugar press, imported from France. They recovered about 10,000 fragments of dishes and everyday objects, plus the foundations of two older sugar presses.